Brooklyn Brewery Scouts Out Red Hook
According to the Daily News, Brooklyn Brewery President Steve Hindy is talking about relocating his Williamsburg brewery to Red Hook — where there would be enough room for a beer garden and space for distributor Phoenix beverages, which is now based in Long Island City. “They believe that other beverage distributors in New York would…
According to the Daily News, Brooklyn Brewery President Steve Hindy is talking about relocating his Williamsburg brewery to Red Hook — where there would be enough room for a beer garden and space for distributor Phoenix beverages, which is now based in Long Island City. “They believe that other beverage distributors in New York would [also] be interested in receiving their products from Europe through the Brooklyn port,” Hindy said. But this move is reliant on a pact which would tranfer control of Red Hook’s piers 7 through 12 from the Port Authority to the city Economic Development Corp…
The pact could go into effect this year, but American Stevdoring, which currently operates a cargo port there, isn’t happy about it. American Stevedoring employs 623 full-time workers, but their lease ends March 31. Their spokesperson contends that the proposed development would slash that number to fewer than 50, but the Daily News reports, “a spokesman for the city Economic Development Corp. scoffed at the estimate, saying the project would create 1,600 longshoremen, stevedoring and warehouse jobs. However, it was unclear how many of those jobs would be full-time.”
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Support all your local breweries! Brooklyn was home to 40 different breweries prior to prohibition… I think 2 can live in harmony in a borough of 4 million people!
We just echoed the Daily News story, which referred to piers 7-12 in Red Hook. Pier 7 is indeed at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, and as far as many people are concerned, that’s far from the heart of Red Hook. Sorry for the confusion.
webster, i’m still witcha. yeah, 3:39, i get it. my semantic question was whether brooklyn record was saying red hook because it was aware of a different site. and yeah, six points is better beer although 3:59 probably overdoes it.
ditto on the six points being the way better beer.
red hook is six points territory.
AND yeah, you can get six points at a LOT of places these days- it’s just only on tap. they can’t bottle the beer yet because they have a staff of 5 people that do everything by hand.
i recommend going on the tour. it runs at 1pm (ish) out of liberty heights tap room on saturdays.
Howdy folks. The point of my question above wasn’t to raise question of neighborhood labels.
There was already a plan mentioned a year or two ago for Brooklyn Brewery to go in at Pier 7.
Just curious if that’s the plan mentioned here, or if they are now discussing another location further down.
Thx
1. it’s sixpoint
2. it’s all over. I see it at most bars I go into in williamsburg (and not just beer bars — union pool had it last time i was there). bars that don’t have sixpoint with regularity are bad bars!
Pier 7 is part of the Red Hook Marine Terminal, but is not in Red Hook. Get it?
my question is the same as webster’s. if the answer is ‘yes,’ i don’t think of pier 7 as red hook.
Brooklyn Brewery, featuring its newest brand, Six Points. Could it happen?